Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and ...

After injury, the visual system can recover by growing new neural connections rather than replacing lost cells. Researchers ...

New research reveals when glaciers around the world will vanish and why every fraction of a degree of warming could decide ...

Much of the western U.S. is overdue for wildfire, with decades of suppression allowing fuel to build up across millions of ...

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The ...

Researchers have uncovered that the body uses different molecular systems to sense cold in the skin versus internal organs.

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and destructive than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike ...

Gravitational waves from black holes may soon reveal where dark matter is hiding. A new model shows how dark matter surrounding massive black holes leaves detectable fingerprints in the waves recorded ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a ...

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked protein that helps regulate appetite and energy use in the body. This ...